What's your favorite over the counter medication?

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tweakmm

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'd sell my soul for a big bottle of Vicodin/Oxycontin any day of the week. Wash two or three down with a few beers and you're talking to Jesus. :Q
you'd have to be crazy to take 3 oxycontin while drinking with 3 beers:Q
 

Mill

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Originally posted by: tweakmm
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'd sell my soul for a big bottle of Vicodin/Oxycontin any day of the week. Wash two or three down with a few beers and you're talking to Jesus. :Q
you'd have to be crazy to take 3 oxycontin while drinking with 3 beers:Q

Or just have a high tolerance. It wasn't much for me to be on 120-160MG of oxycontin as well as xanax, beer, and other drugs. I was stupid. Taking 3 oxycontins unless you take them daily will probably kill you with alcohol. I hope you have a fairly high opiate tolerance.
 

morkinva

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Originally posted by: stonecold3169
Kodein with Tylenole... hey, living 5 minutes from the Canadian border has SOME uses :p

You can buy this without prescription in Canada? Wow.

Also what does nyquil do for you? Numb you out?
 

zerocomm

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i had a heart attack, and liver and kidney failures as a result of overdosing on 350mg oxycontin. all i can say is the line between recreational and toxic is very very very thin. 350 may seem insane but i was doing around 300 a day.
 

yobarman

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i never take medication... i took some 800mg ibuprofen's a couple times when i had a head ache a while back... otherwise i dunno.

Oxycontin and Percecet will mess you up i hear(well i work at an insurance company so i got people callin in all the time high as a kite trying to get these meds) i gotta try those :Q
 

zerocomm

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and speaking of nyquil/robotussin dextromethorphan hydrobromide causes verifyable human brain damage in high doses *high doses being normal recreational doses* plus the fact that you need to know what the extra chemicals are in there, and what their toxic levels are
 

yobarman

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damn 300 mg!?

i heard 80 mg is the legal daily does allowed by the fda?

anyways, how the hell were you people getting so many oxys?! isn't it legal heroin?
 

Sluggo

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Depends, I love Advil for various stuff, and it keeps my Carpal Tunnel syptoms in check.

Nyquil rules the roost for cold/flu season.

But, Tylenol Cold/Sinus or Sudafed as a second choice is a MUST HAVE if I am getting on a plane. I have screwy ear tubes and if I dont take some kind of decongestant about an hour before a plane begins it's descent, so much pressure builds up in my ear tubes that it really feels like my head will explode. Last time I forgot my drugs, it was puking in the air sicknes bag while tears of sheer pain rolled down my face. The lady in the same aisle as me was freaking out. By the time we got on the ground, I had such a pounding headache that I was barely able to walk, I had to hire a cab to drive me home, since I wasnt able to drive. It took my ears about 2 weeks to recover from that episode.
 

Mill

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Originally posted by: zerocomm
i had a heart attack, and liver and kidney failures as a result of overdosing on 350mg oxycontin. all i can say is the line between recreational and toxic is very very very thin. 350 may seem insane but i was doing around 300 a day.

May I ask you what size, color, and brand of pills that you took to receive dosages of 300MG a day? What size, color, and brand pill did you take when you overdosed at 350MG? I will give you the benefit of the doubt, but unless you were getting these from a legitimate source that would be a very very very expensive daily habit. Also it takes a long time of opiate therapy for someone to be able to tolerate 300 MG of oxycodone a day. I assume this was not mixed with any other narcotic or respiratory depressant?
 

zerocomm

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oxycontin is only made by one manufacturer i believe, perdue? they were blue 80mg pills, and i was used to snorting three 80's in a row, but i proceeded to do a 4th for some reason (i only wanted to do half of it), i passed out and woke up in the ER where i was in intensive care unit for 7 days (i was on a little bit to begin with to explain the 30mg gap)
 

zerocomm

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i was actually mixing them daily with around 15mg of straight benzodiazapam (valium) stretched throughout the day, but no other depressants. my tolerance was unmatched by anyone i had even heard of. i hadn't a clue how deep i was in until it all came crashing down.
 

Mill

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Originally posted by: zerocomm
oxycontin is only made by one manufacturer i believe, perdue? they were blue 80mg pills, and i was used to snorting three 80's in a row, but i proceeded to do a 4th for some reason (i only wanted to do half of it), i passed out and woke up in the ER where i was in intensive care unit for 7 days (i was on a little bit to begin with to explain the 30mg gap)

You are pretty much right except for the color. I can't believe you lived through that. You were either very lucky or had a great doc. I hope you are done with pills.

How much were you paying per pill? That must have been an expensive habit.
 

Imported

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Excedrin.. whatever they put in it, it sure in hell works better than any pain reliever I've ever used!